The sheer number of Jewish laws infuses everyday life with endless opportunities to touch the divine within. With this modern translation of the Shulchan Aruch Harav, the English-reading public can study Jewish law as taught by Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liad...

Section 1 The first letters of the words of the verse, Shir HaShirim 6:3. אני לדודי ודודי לי — “I am my Beloved’s and my Beloved is mine,” spell out the name אלול — Elul.Avudraham, The Order of the Prayers of Rosh HaShanah, ch. 1; Pri Etz Chayim, Shaar Ro...

From the teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi; adapted by Eli Touger

Selected discourses from the founder of the Chabad Chasidic philosophy's great works: Torah Ohr and Likkutei Torah. This edition focuses on Rabbi Schneur Zalman`s insights on the festivals. It has been the custom for Chasidim to study the discourses in To...

How everyone, children included, can apprehend the unknowable essence of G-d

From the teachings of Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi

In a single cryptic sentence R. Schneur Zalman of Liaidi pushed the limits of divine knowledge to an unprecedentedly esoteric height and paradoxically declared that the loftiest peak is openly accessible to all.

This is what man is all about; this is the purpose of his creation and of the creation of all the worlds, sublime and lowly -- to make for G-d a dwelling in the physical world ... A little bit of light dispels a lot of darkness ...